Oxford Assess and Progress: Clinical Specialties

Edited by Luci Etheridge and Alex Bonner
Katharine Boursicot and David Sales

Over 350 SBAs and EMQs covering the core specialties.

Each question has a progression point to help readers revise efficiently and track their progress.

All answers are supported by detailed feedback, advice from the authors, and directions to further reading.

Fully cross-referenced to the 9th edition of the trusted classic, the Oxford Handbook of Clinical Specialties.

Written by clinicians and medical assessment experts to guarantee the highest quality content.

Updated in line with the 9th edition of the Oxford Handbook of Clinical Specialties (publishing Jan 2013)

24 new SBA questions added that span all progression points.

Reflects up-to-date evidence-based guidelines from NICE and similar bodies.

Dr Alex Bonner joins this edition as an editor, having contributed to the first edition.

Oxford Assess and Progress: Clinical Specialties

Second Edition

Edited by Luci Etheridge and Alex Bonner
Katharine Boursicot and David Sales

Description

Oxford Assess and Progress: Clinical Specialties is the ideal self-assessment tool for students looking to test their knowledge of the core clinical specialties. Fully cross-referenced to the ninth edition of the Oxford Handbook of Clinical Specialties, this compact volume contains hundreds of questions on a wide spectrum of conditions across the specialties.

This new edition contains over 350 Single Best Answer and Extended Matching questions addressing core clinical topics and professional skills. Each answer is marked with a progression point to help the reader to track their progress and revise effectively. The authors offer detailed feedback on each question, directing the reader to relevant sections in the Oxford Handbook of Clinical Specialties and
key evidence-based guidelines for further reading. The book also includes image-based questions.

Written by practising clinicians and experts in medical assessment, this book is the ultimate revision resource for medical students in the fourth and fifth year, as well as any junior doctor looking to improve their knowledge of the core clinical specialties.

Table of Contents

Oxford Assess and Progress: Clinical Specialties

Second Edition

Edited by Luci Etheridge and Alex Bonner
Katharine Boursicot and David Sales

Author Information

Dr Luci Etheridge is a Consultant Paediatrician and Senior Fellow in Clinical Leadership at Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust in East London. She previously worked for four years with UCL Medical School and was involved with the development of Fitness to Practise assessments for the General Medical Council and item writing for the Professional and Linguistics Assessment Board Part 1 and the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. She is currently completing a doctorate in education at the Institute of Education, University of London.

Dr Alex Bonner is a Senior Anaesthetic Trainee in the North West Deanery. He is regularly involved in the teaching of medical students, foundation doctors and anaesthetic trainees
preparing for their FRCA examinations. He is an instructor of Adult and Paediatric Advanced Life Support Courses and has experience of practising anaesthesia and teaching in Sub-Saharan Africa. He also has contributed to the development of Fitness to Practise assessments for the General Medical Council.

Dr Katharine Boursicot is a Reader in Medical Education and Deputy Head of the Centre for Medical and Healthcare Education at St George's, University of London. Previously she was Head of Assessment at Barts and The London, and Associate Dean for Assessment at Cambridge University School of Clinical Medicine. She is consultant on assessment to several UK medical schools, Royal Medical Colleges and international institutions as well as the General Medical Council PLAB Part
2 Panel and Fitness to Practise clinical skills testing.

Dr David Sales is a general practitioner by training who has been involved in medical assessment for over 20 years, having previously been convenor of the MRCGP knowledge test. He has run item writing workshops for a number of undergraduate medical schools, medical royal colleges and internationally. For the General Medical Council currently he chairs the Professional and Linguistic Assessments Board Part 1 panel and is their consultant on fitness to practise knowledge testing.